Draft summary conclusions of the 280th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), held in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2001. Note to CREST delegations. Brussels, 21...
University enterprise is being stifled by more teaching duties, growing administrative tasks and the pursuit of high research ratings, a report will say. The European Commission-funded report, due to...
Harry Potter may be one step ahead of the evil Voldemort, but the marketeers had his number long ago, warns June Cummins. "How do you achieve global commercial domination and not lose your soul?" -...
If Genome Valley is to ever become a reality, academia, industry and government must form a coherent strategy, say George Poste and Robin Fears A recent THES editorial (January 15) focused on the...
Malcolm Grant University College London The walls of the cavernous rooms of the provost of University College London have been re-papered but otherwise remain bare. Malcolm Grant, the new incumbent,...
Brussels, 9 April 2002 Today, the Commission is proposing a new multiannual programme for actions in the field of energy, "Intelligent Energy for Europe" (2003-2006), to follow on from the current...
Lecturers protest at further redundancies Lecturers at Middlesex University lobbied its board of governors this week in protest at restructuring and redundancy. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe are...
The government's new post-16 education and training framework could undermine progress towards national learning targets, it has been claimed. Training and enterprise councils fear that the Learning...
Businesses set to determine college courses Businesses are to be given a central role in determining what courses are offered by further education colleges, the government announced yesterday....
Whoever the political winners and losers of the Greater London Assembly elections may be, one winning profession is academia. Five of the 25 members of the London Assembly have university links,...
The white paper on science and innovation contains three main strands: enhancing the science base, innovation and knowledge transfer, and the public confidence in science. Enhancing the science base...
Globalisation has much to offer our society, argues Grazia Ietto-Gillies, but it requires responsible governance if we are to reverse the trends of third-world exploitation and environmental damage...
A Cologne design course where no one tells students what to do is a teaching model. Pat Leon reports. Cologne Design School is still turning teaching upside down ten years after its creation. It was...
European leaders want to integrate public space efforts into other activities. Jane Marshall reports. Space is no longer a separate entity, and space exploration must be fused with other activities...